Fatima Bio Braces on COVID-19 Battle

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In an effort to ensure that the fight against
Coronavirus (COVID-19) is sustained and eventually won, the First Lady of the
Republic of Sierra Leone, Mrs. Fatima Bio is currently on a nationwide
distribution of essential items to help in the fight against the dreaded
disease.

As the number of COVID-19 cases continue to
rise, this robust intervention is being made by the Office of the First Lady in
order to contain the spread of Coronavirus pandemic in Sierra Leone.

In that direction, the First Lady Mrs. Fatima
Bio in collaboration with the Julius Maada Bio Women’s Wing disclosed plans to
distribute over seventy thousand face masks to players in the informal sector
to mitigate the transmission of the virus.

Speaking at the launching of the National
Food Basket Project in Freetown, Mrs. Fatima Bio expressed her profound
commitments to reach out to market women, taxi and other drivers, motorbike –
‘okada’ and tricycle riders among other key players in the informal sector with
well over seventy thousand face masks nationwide.

The First Lady explained that she and her
husband President Julius Maada Bio recently went into fourteen days isolation,
immediately after one of the presidential guards was tested positive for
COVID-19.

She used the opportunity to implore all and
sundry to be wearing masks on the faces of their children and to stop
stigmatizing people in quarantine centers and to encourage and support those
persons who have survived the COVID-19 pandemic.

On the National Food Basket Project, Mrs. Bio
said funds for the implementation of the drive were mobilized directly from the
JMB Women’s Wing Diaspora chapters, under the umbrella of the Sierra Leone
People’s Party.

She encouraged all to distance the Food
Basket Project from politics as it is meant for all Sierra Leoneans
irrespective of different political ideologies.

She maintained
that the food consignment include thousands of bags of rice, onions, sugar,
which will be distributed nationwide to all households.